To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Where there is love there is life.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.